Lucknow: The state government has provided 2000 square meters of land to the Uttar Pradesh police for the construction of an anti-terror squad unit in Noorpur Deoband Village in Uttar Pradesh.
Land, owned by Uttar Pradesh Small Industries Corporation Limited (Upsic), has been allocated for free.
The Country Cabinet has provided a nod to the unit on December 2.
ATS, which has a head office in Lucknow, has units in 17 countries.
Two additions were recently made in Bahraich and Shraverti.
Deoband will be an ATS 18 unit.
Inspector General, ATS, Gajendra Goswamy, said: “The Special Police Operations Unit (place) ATS will be deployed in the unit along with a small unit for intelligence collection and operation.” “The dog squad, bomb disposal forces, and wireless trap units along with a group of combat units will be part of it,” Goswamy said.
“ATS units are planned at Deoband because of its strategic location when it falls in the state border area.
It will also increase depth, operational capability and strength in the west,” he added.
ATS ATS already has a training center in the Anora Sarojininagar area in Lucknow and an attempt to organize one unit in Varanasi, Mirzapur, Azamgarh and Lakhimpur Kheri.
Officers said other units were also expected to come near the proposed Noida International Airport.
“Location selection for ATS units is being carried out in fields that are strategically important,” he added.